The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
Observers Observations.


season.
The poor granger says this is hard weather
on wheat.
They have commenced to shake their
winter toes.
Hang on to the old saw, as "boys will be
boys" another year.
The swamps are full of water now: look
out for sleighing soon.
Sausages and pancakes have struck us, and
we all seem to be glad over it.
The bummers say next season will be one
of the driest we have had for years.
Mrs. G. j. Russell and her daughter Jennie
from Lawton, made as visit last week.
Straw and potatoes are in good demand
and bring good prices-the best for years.
Major Mcdowell has taken his wife and
family and gone to Tuscola county to live.
Lew Salisbury has taken up his residence
on the beauteous shores of Three Mile Lake.
Ed Hayes has moved his quarters and
taken up those on the south side of the race.
Stephen Pepper has sold his bay trotter
"Margie." John Galligan is the new owner.
Cady Van Week, who has been down with
rheumatism so long, is getting better no fast
at all.
This week is pension week, and those
little quarterly dues make many an old heart
jump for JOY.
Alonzo, our prosecuting attorney tells US
that he don't care to hold that Office after
his term expires. Who will be our next.
They had "shin-dig'' up at Ed. Rays
last Friday night, the first country dance of
the season. The boys say it was dandy all
through.
gentleman asked us the other day if
Tuscola county lawyer sent his wife down
here for divorce. We didn't know. Can
somebody tell2
Ira Flanders, with his great sledge- hammer
arguments, baskets of provisions, ETC., carried
the Lee district for prohibition by an in
creased majority.
Mrs. Geo. King. who went to Rome, N. Y,
last winter and had three cancers removed,
now has four more and the ones she had
operated upon have all broken out anew.
VIM. G.. Buchanan of Caro-, prosecuting
attorney of Iuscola county, an old Paw Paw
boy, had the misfortune to lose his house by
fire last week. Loss $4,000, partly insured.
A. W. Hendricks is dead: found dead in
bed few nights ago by his wife. 1t was
not our A. w, but cousin of the late vice
president. Our A. w. was never known to
die.
Mrs. Mary +. Jones sent us up turkey
the other day for our Thanksgiving dinner.
1t was good turkey, very nice and tender, a
good deal like Mary's big heart. She has
our sincere and earnest thanks
Miss Lille T. Jennings is pulling the reins
over the young juveniles of the Lee district.
Whether or not she can guide them out of
their ignorance and deviltry is one of the
dark. deep, hidden mysteries of the future
that no mortal can fathom.
John G.. Garyin, our carriage maker. has
been sporting black eye for the past few
days. he tells the same old story-a stick
dew up and hit it. We never knew Mr.. q.
to tell an untruth, but circumstances some
times have suspicious appearance.
His name was-well, never mind the name
and he proposed marriage to one Of our
handsome widows. She told him she had
no further use for him except as toboggan
Slide and she was getting rather old for that
kind of pastime. lie took his cane and
marched out.
The Bangor Adrdnco speaks of carload
or two of hogs being shipped from that place
each week. If Paw Paw had pigs piled up
by the cord with hundreds of tons of them
all over town and a large institution employ
ing a hundred men night and day in their
manufacture she could ship dozen carloads
each week, and it wouldn't be necessary to
blow over IT either.
Isaac b. Connor, one of our leading agri-
cultural implement dealers, says he never
saw so much gambling as he did at Dowagiac
during the fair, and thai nearly every other
place was gambling institution. Now we
don't know 50 much about those Dowagiacers
gambling, as our attention was never called
that way; but we do know that their sheep
gambol: we have seen them at it.
Kalamazoo has gone into the pill business
on q Dig sca,e. they have formed corpor-
alton and some 100000 of stock has been
taken The little pellets are rafting out fast
enough TO pnysic all creation every day, and
still there are more to follow. Physicians
are not running IL altogether; we notice that
J. w. Osborn, one of Kalamazoo's leading
legal lights, has few thousands rolled up in
the great anti-bilious remedy.
VIM. Ray, formerly of the 1O2d u. S. G.
T., has been drawing pension of twenty
four dollars per month. Some good friend
of Billy's reported him to Gen. Black as
drawing too much, wherupon the general
ordered him to report to the Kalamazoo ex-
amining board for examination. He did so,
and here the other day he received certif-
cate of increase. giving him $50 per month.
We advise Billy's friend to cut this out and
paste il in his little No. five hat
We have "a genids in town who has got up
an invention that he calls an anti-railroad-
collisioner. IL is one of the most simple
and useful inventions we ever saw. Where
ever it is used collisions will be utterly inn
possible. When universally adopted, as il
certainly will be, il will save tho lives Of
thousands OF people every year. Not only
that but il will do away with double tracks.
side tracks, etc, and save millions of money
that can be expended boring for gas getting
up church fairs, etc, and thus accomplish an
immense amount of good. This invention
consists of train of cars with railroad
track attached, passing over it and down at
either end near enough TO connect with the
main track, SO that on meeting train il
DaseQe dirpcflv over in porfect safety. or ~